Event Types

Citizens Climate Lobby

May 16, 2019

I am a the local group leader for Citizens Climate Lobby. We are a nonpartisan group of volunteers with more than 500 chapters and 120,000 members. We are working to create political will for climate solutions. You may have read about our work, and our Founder, Marshall Saunders, in the April Rotarian Magazine: (https://www.rotary.org/en/climate-change-rotary-member-gains-ground-citizens-climate-lobby ). CCL is unique in several ways. We focus on working with Congress to create a robust national policy on climate and energy. We build relationships with every member of Congress, based on respect, appreciation, and gratitude. We are optimistic. We believe that democracy works when ordinary citizens are actively involved-personal empowerment is one of our core values.

We are a nonpartisan group of volunteers with more than 500 chapters and 120,000 members. We are working to create political will for climate solutions. You may have read about our work, and our Founder, Marshall Saunders, in the April Rotarian Magazine: (https://www.rotary.org/en/climate-change-rotary-member-gains-ground-citizens-climate-lobby ). CCL is unique in several ways. We focus on working with Congress to create a robust national policy on climate and energy. We build relationships with every member of Congress, based on respect, appreciation, and gratitude. We are optimistic. We believe that democracy works when ordinary citizens are actively involved-personal empowerment is one of our core values. I am writing to ask if the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club would be interested in hearing a presentation about climate change and how CCL is working to do something about it. There has been recent progress in our work with Congress (and particularly with Republicans) that I think your membership would enjoy hearing about.

The Berlin Tunnel—A Cold War Thriller

My name is Roger L. Liles. I have written a novel called The Berlin Tunnel—A Cold War Thriller. It’s based on a true story and is about spy-versus-spy on the street of East and West Berlin before, during, and after the closing of the Berlin Wall and the Berlin Crisis in 1961. I have done extensive research into this time and place; as a result, I have prepared a 20-minute briefing about that era; it’s titled: Occupied Berlin 1945-1994. This briefing is followed by a few charts about my book.